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BC coach: Why isn’t Florida State No. 1?

BOSTON (AP) Boston College coach Steve Addazio just can’t understand why Florida State isn’t at the top of the college football playoff rankings.

The Eagles coach says any time a team is the defending national champion and the only unbeaten in the power conferences, it should be No. 1.

Florida State is first in The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday. But it was behind two schools, including an Oregon team with a loss, in the rankings that will determine the four programs to reach the College Football Playoff.

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Mississippi State was also ahead of the Seminoles. But the Bulldogs lost Saturday to Alabama. A new playoff ranking will be released Tuesday, and Oregon is expected to move up one spot to No. 1.